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Edgar Parin d’Aulaire (1898-1986) was born in Munich, Germany to the noted Italian portrait Painter Gino Parin and Ella Auler. He studied under Henri Matisse and painted murals in France and Norway, and had exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, and Oslo. From 1922 to 1926 he illustrated numerous books in Germany. In 1929 he and his wife, Ingri, moved to the United States, where they went on to collaborate on twenty-seven picture books. They won the Caldecott Medal in 1940 for Abraham Lincoln, and were finalists for the National Book Award in 1973 for d’Aulaire’s Trolls. |